Free beds offer chance of quicker treatment

COUNCILS up and down the country are refusing to open schools, contrary to government guidelines. Why, For the safety of teachers? Teachers should remember that schools are already open for the children of key workers.

Why are teachers so special? Supermarkets are staying open, with greater risks to those employed there. Postmen and women are working, everyone in the NHS, from consultants to cleaners are working every day. The only people complaining are teachers – not all I admit – their unions and more often than not, Labour councils. It strikes me that there is a left wing agenda rearing its ugly head. If I was in government, any teacher refusing to go back should have their pay cut.

Teachers, start teaching again

Can these plans truly give us a lift?

REGARDING the article (‘MP’s vision of town as heart of the north,’ Examiner, May 22) I

CONSIDERING that NHS hospitals are running half empty, thus freeing up 50% of bed spaces, are we, or, are we not, admitting those waiting-listed patients with potentially life threatening serious ails, which require attention/surgery?

Or, instead, are they are to be further deprived of possible lifesaving attention which would like to ask Mr Sheerman how he hopes to achieve this salubrious event?

Are we yet to have a ski-lift to Castle Hill? Is he going to magically provide shops and customers for a town centre which is almost dead? Is he going to stop the opening of yet more takeaways, of which there is a glut? previously – pre Covid – was due solely to a shortage of bed spaces?

This surely is an opportune time to place them from the back to the front of the queue, allowing a process to clearing the waiting-list backlog, whilst simultaneously giving patients their lives back.

Mr Corcoran,

Will Cross Church Street somehow be converted into Berkeley Square?

Will he make it safe for people to walk around town after 8pm?

I have had sight of a survey regarding Huddersfield as a United Nations Sustainable Development and the question is asked: ‘do you use a bus, if so why, how can we encourage people to use buses?’ and very little else!

I would also ask Mr Sheerman: have Kirklees Council bought the George Hotel? Are they buying the dilapidated St George’s warehouse? How do these anticipated purchases fit in with his plans?

We know a few statues on New Street have been suggested and a £250m plan for the town centre, which never bears fruition is planned, what else can we expect?

Over to you Mr Sheerman!